Scientists are studying how to unlock phones with brain waves

If completed, this method will be much more effective and safe than fingerprint or iris security.

According to Android Authority, a group of scientists are studying the use of brain waves to make biometric "passwords" for future security methods.

For years, scientists have assumed that fingerprints are "monopoly" , and the possibility of two people having the same fingerprint is almost impossible. That's why fingerprints have been used as the main security method on smartphones and computers in the past.

Scientists are studying the use of brain waves as biometric "passwords".

But that doesn't mean you will be safe from crime. If your fingerprint information is collected and made into a false fingerprint, the sensors can still identify them as real fingerprints.

When the fingerprint security is no longer high, the world seeks a more powerful and hard-to-fool method. It was brainwave , the scientist's idea was Wenyao Xu.

Working at Buffalo's University of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Xu developed a type of headset that identifies the only brainwave a person creates when looking at images. In a few seconds, the system will authenticate that person's identity and "unlock".

To determine identity, the tester was able to see animal and celebrity images (like Leonardo DiCaprio) switching quickly in 4 times. 5 months later, they returned to test "brain password" . Xu said the test was 95% effective.

Currently the brainwave scanning system requires a dedicated headset to operate, quite bulky if you just want to unlock the phone. But in theory, we have added a very secure biometric security method for smartphones or computers.

Xu hopes that companies interested in privacy and privacy will soon recognize the technology, which can then be tweaked to make operations more efficient and less annoying.

Xu will bring the project to MobiSys 2018, mobile computing conference held in Germany by Computer Association.